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Word: que (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 4:45 a.m. we touched Cuban soil. As the plane's wheels scraped the dark empty runway, someone began to sing, "Cuba, Que Linda Es Cuba...

Author: By Dwight Hopkins, | Title: A Black Student's Journal: Trip to Communist Cuba | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

Even the dead are not left in peace. In "Que Hai Que Hacer Mas?" (What More Can Be Done?), five French soldiers brutally castrate a Spanish corpse...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: The Sleep of Reason | 11/19/1974 | See Source »

Enlarging her niche in film history, Gloria Swanson presided in Paris last week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1974 | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...there was no escaping it. El amigo del padre has to join in too if he did not want to be rude. So I took the glass, spilled a little out in the customary Quechua gesture of thanks to Pachamamma, or Mother Earth, closed my eyes, and drank. "Que bueno!" How good! I said through my teeth as I handed the cup back to the peasant...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...face, which appeared so innocent because of the childish woolen cap he wore. Many of the men and boys wear this traditional protection against the cold. It looks something like the flight cap of a World War I flying ace, with flaps pulled down over the ears. "Que es?" --What is it? I asked gamely enough, as I looked at the bottle that said "Coca-Cola" through the dust that covered it. The men continued to laugh. They must not speak Spanish, I thought. I hesitated a moment, but as I caught the eye of the one on the left...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

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